Pictured: “Camp Forrest reechoed to the martial blare of the 181st Field Artillery Band as the former Tennessee National Guard filed past the reviewing crowds of friends and relatives who assembled in the training camp for the first Family Day,...

An original will of Alfred Balch, n.d. Illustrates the first page of the document. The verso refers to “Book 16, Pages 182, 183, 184” in the Davidson County Court, that was recorded in the Wills & Inventories volume on December 7th, 1853. ...

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics...

An excerpt from an oral history interview with Mary Le Sueur, conducted on 11 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Project. Le Sueur discusses spending her childhood summers on relatives' farms and...

A view of the Tulane Hotel, located at Church and Eighth Avenue North, NE corner in downtown Nashville, Tennessee circa 1957. This hotel, built in the renaissance revival style, was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...

A view of the Tulane Hotel, located at Church and Eighth Avenue North, NE corner in downtown Nashville, Tennessee circa 1957. This hotel, built in the renaissance revival style, was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...

A view of the Tulane Hotel, located at Church and Eighth Avenue North, NE corner in downtown Nashville, Tennessee circa 1957. This hotel, built in the renaissance revival style, was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...

A view of the Tulane Hotel, located at Church and Eighth Avenue North, NE corner in downtown Nashville, Tennessee circa 1957. This hotel, built in the renaissance revival style, was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...

A view of the Tulane Hotel, located at Church and Eighth Avenue North, NE corner in downtown Nashville, Tennessee circa 1957. This hotel, built in the renaissance revival style, was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...

A postcard of the Tulane Hotel, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old Nicholson House (a fancy boarding house...

A photograph of the Tulane Hotel as it appeared circa the 1930s, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue North and Church Street in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. This hotel was erected in 1894 as the Nicholson Hotel on the site of the old...

A photograph of Dinah Shore surrounded by family and friends at the Nashville Airport. This partial text accompanied the photograph appearing in the Nashville Banner newspaper on March 15, 1941: "Dinah Shore, radio and record artist, stopped for...

A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ozborn. The caption reads: “Triune Tenn, Jan. 6 (Spl.)--Mr. and Mrs. Ozborn of Arrington, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary...